The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 22

The shepherd was fond of children, so he took the baby home with him and gave it plenty of milk, and by the time the boy was fourteen he could tear up oaks as if they were weeds.

Who acts: shepherd, boy, oaks · What happens: be, take, give, tear up · To what, where: baby, fourteen, oaks

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, boy, oaks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fond	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	cop
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fond	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 baby	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	obj
19	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 milk	case
21	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plenty	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tear	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tear	cc
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tear	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fourteen	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fourteen	cop
30	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 time	nmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tear	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tear	aux
33	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 gave	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 tear	compound:prt
35	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tear	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	40 weeds	case
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 weeds	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 weeds	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 weeds	cop
40	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tear	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shepherd			of children; fond property	tree rules
2	take	past	Shepherd	the baby		with Niels; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
3	give	past	Shepherd not said here	baby			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient plenty=Theme
4	is a	past	the boy	fourteen			tree rules
5	tear up	could	Shepherd	oaks	time		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location oak=Theme
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	oaks = oak			as weeds	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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